Hello, and I hope you are enjoying the new update.

Just a couple of things about the changes and new content.


As well as the existing rules - such as having an unreformed faith, or Tribal government - raiding is now enabled (regardless of other factors) by your faith having the Warmonger tenet, or by your culture having one of the three raiding tenets: Longships, West African Canoes or Barbary Corsairs. If this need toning down I can do so in future, and of course it will require testing, but for now it is WAD that Clan Berbers and Feudal Scandinavians can raid.


There is a new decision called Adopt Roman Traditions, allowing you to resurrect Roman culture if you have formed the Roman Empire. It requires you to have already moved the capital back to Rome (which exists as its own decision), and not already be Roman culture.

Taking the decision will convert you, your spouse (if unlanded) and your immediate family to Roman culture, and, if you/they are Hellenic pagan, will also convert you all to Roman pagan. Some random provinces will also flip to Roman culture/faith.

Your de jure vassals will then also have the option of converting.

I have also gated the Create Cadet Branch decision behind the Heraldry innovation - this is to avoid AI cadet branch spam early in the game, and also because it should (in theory) help the Karlings avoid some historically dubious inheritance issues.

Finally, the Restore the Kingdom of the Isles decision (TIP version) has been re-enabled, but is now limited to Celtic cultures (which includes Norse-Gaelic); this means it should no longer overlap with the DLC version, which is for North Germanic cultures (+ Norman) - if either of these decisions are taken, the other will be locked out so as to avoid potential issues.


I have added a bunch of unique cultural innovations, mainly based on ideas suggested by Biggie Cheese. These are mainly for flavour, but will be useful anyway, and some are unlocked by default. Any feedback on these would be appreciated - in particular the Tsikhe Forts innovation for Georgian culture, which I haven't had time to properly test.


This is probably the largest area of expansion, as I have added nine new faiths, including a new historical religion group, as well as five new tenets and improvements to a couple of vanilla ones.

The Sramanic religion group technically also includes the Jains and Buddhists, but because these are their own groups in CK III (which is understandable) and I didn't think there was any point in revamping the entire Eastern religion setup, I've used the name for the three 'missing' faiths: Ajivika, Charvaka and Ajnana.

These are arguably the oldest faiths/philosophies in India, and so I have wanted to include them for a while. Technically all three are atheistic, meaning they did not have a pantheon of gods (though nor did Buddhists), but they did venerate certain concepts and ideas, which I've tried to represent in game as best I can. The research for these faiths took a long time and meant reading a whole host of different sources, but they feel very different to the vanilla Indian faiths and so should be quite fun to play as. They did exist into the CK III period - the Ajivika into the 14th century - but were probably not a majority in any provinces after 867, so although courtiers will spawn with these faiths, and they can pop up as heresies, they are not on the map by default.

The main reason I started playing around with tenets was because whilst researching the Sramanic faiths I realised that whereas I probably could have shoehorned three vanilla tenets each for them, it wouldn't have made them feel very unique or as interesting as they should be. Each of the three had a core principle that defined its outlook - Fatalism, Materialism and Skepticism respectively - and so I decided to turn these into religious tenets that could make each faith feel more defined. Those tenets are also available to use in custom faiths, although some have restrictions or have been made incompatible with other tenets.

Those three aside, I've also added a new Prosperity tenet, which allows you to gain gold from holding feasts and going on pilgrimages, and finished/expanded an unused/unfinished vanilla tenet called Exaltation of Pain, which allows you to do some very cool stuff. I strongly recommend checking these two out next time you reform your faith.

As well as the Sramanic group, I have added three of the much older historical Buddhist schools, the Sarvastivada, Vibhajyavada and Pudgalavada, and three more Hellenic pagan faiths, Roman, Eleusinian and Sol Invictus. These are all interesting in their own way, and have some unusual tenet combinations to play around with.

Finally, I've added some new holy sites, including Zêtang - the old capital of the Tibetan Empire - for Nangchos Buddhists, which allows them to grant Sky Burials.

I hope you enjoy the update, and I hope some of this information has been useful. If you have any suggestions or find any bugs please post them in the relevant threads.